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Three strikes separated Gerrit Cole from a shutout and the Yankees ace snarled atop the mound, barking a few choice expletives that began with the letter “F” into the face of his manager. On this night, in this ballpark, absolutely no one was taking the baseball out of his right hand.
Cole’s start had been in jeopardy days prior, having received IV drips during the club’s visit to Seattle. Bracing for a short outing, the Yankees instead watched Cole dig deep for one of the team’s gutsiest pitching efforts in recent memory, blanking the Astros on three hits in a 1-0 victory on Saturday in his first start at Minute Maid Park as a Yankee.